Quotes By Carlos Ghosn

We continue to be bullish on China.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

We are facing extreme volatility.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.